Fernpassstrasse

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	State road B179 in Austria
	Basic data
Start of the street:	Nassereith ; ( 47 ° 18 ′ N , 10 ° 51 ′ E )
End of street:	Füssen border tunnel ; ( 47 ° 34 ′ N , 10 ° 39 ′ E )
Overall length:	49.38 km
State :	Tyrol
	The Fernpass road near the highest point
	Imst district
	Reutte district

The Fernpassstraße ( B 179 , until 1999 B 314 ) is a state road in the Austrian state of Tyrol . With a length of 49.4 km, it connects the Inn Valley with the Ausserfern via the Fernpass that gives it its name .

course

The Fernpassstraße begins south of Nassereith as a continuation of the Mieminger Straße B 189, which leads from Telfs over the Mieminger Plateau and the Holzleitensattel and from Imst through the Gurgltal . It climbs almost 400 meters to the Fernpass ( 1210 m above sea level ) and then leads down to the Ehrwald Basin , which is passed through the Lermoos tunnel on the western edge. In the intermediate gates it leads past Bichlbach and Heiterwang and through the Ehrenberger Klause reaches the Reutten basin and the Lech valley . From the Reutte- Süd junction , it is developed as a car road without intersections and runs parallel to the Lech . In the border tunnel in Füssen it crosses under the Falkensteinkamm and at the state border it merges into the German A 7 in the tunnel .

The Fernpassstraße is part of the important connection from Ulm via Füssen and Imst to Landeck and over the Reschenpass to Italy . It is therefore heavily burdened during the holiday travel season.

expansion

The original plan was to extend the German A 7 to the Austrian Inntal motorway A 12 . Since the population was against it, these plans were not pursued further. However, in order to relieve the municipalities of the Gurgltal and the Holzleitensattels, which are heavily burdened by the through traffic from the B 189 to the A 12 , a direct connection was planned between the end of the B 179 in Nassereith and the Inntal motorway at Haiming through the Tschirgant tunnel . As of 2013, these plans are no longer being pursued for cost reasons.

In October 2007, construction began on the Heiterwang bypass that had been planned for years and was opened to traffic on October 27, 2010.

Since 2010, the route has been closed to trucks over 7.5 tons from road kilometer 0 - the intersection with the B 189 - to kilometer 47.957 - the Reutte-Süd exit. Exceptions apply to trucks whose start or destination is near the border.

The plans for the Fernpass tunnel have been in concrete terms since 2016 . The building application for the 1,360-meter-long summit tunnel , which runs under the Fernpass and is estimated to cost 100 million euros, is to be submitted to the Tyrolean state parliament in March or April 2018 .

designation

On May 15, 2002 the name of the Tyrolean Parliament was changed from Fernpass Straße to Fernpassstraße .

gallery

At the Fernpass near the top of the pass
South portal of the Lermoos tunnel
Course at Reutte
South portal of the Füssen border tunnel

Web links

Commons : Fernpassstraße - collection of images

Fernpass Strategy 2016 of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (PDF)

Individual evidence

↑ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (Ed.): Statistisches Handbuch Bundesland Tirol 2019. Innsbruck 2019, pp. 11–12 ( PDF; 14.2 MB )

↑ Clear no to the tunnel at the Fernpass. Tiroler Tageszeitung, March 23, 2013, accessed on March 8, 2020 .

↑ Heiterwang bypass was officially opened. Article from mein district.at of October 27, 2010

↑ Many transit trucks are no longer allowed to cross the Fernpass. Allgäuer Zeitung from December 23, 2009.

↑ Timetable for the Fernpass summit tunnel , orf.at of January 11, 2018, accessed on February 6, 2018.

↑ Resolution of the Tyrolean Parliament of May 15, 2002, published in State Law Gazette 23/2002 ( Memento of the original of January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 66 kB) @1@ 2

B179	Like the other former federal highways, the Fernpassstraße was part of the federal administration. Since April 1, 2002, it has been under state administration and continues to have the B in the number, but not the name Bundesstraße.

[stat_handbuch-1] Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (Ed.): Statistisches Handbuch Bundesland Tirol 2019. Innsbruck 2019, pp. 11–12 ( PDF; 14.2 MB )

[2] Clear no to the tunnel at the Fernpass. Tiroler Tageszeitung, March 23, 2013, accessed on March 8, 2020 .

[3] Heiterwang bypass was officially opened. Article from mein district.at of October 27, 2010

[4] Many transit trucks are no longer allowed to cross the Fernpass. Allgäuer Zeitung from December 23, 2009.

[ORF20180111-5] Timetable for the Fernpass summit tunnel , orf.at of January 11, 2018, accessed on February 6, 2018.